10 DIY Garden Trellises That Cost Less Than $20

Adding a trellis to your garden is highly recommended in some instances, especially if you're growing vegetables. If you have a small yard, trellises are also a great way to train your plants to grow vertically and save space.

However, a lot of premade garden trellises are unnecessarily expensive. Learn how to build a DIY trellis for a fraction of the cost. All these ideas are affordable and shouldn't cost you more than $20.

These simple bamboo tee-pees work great if you have a vegetable garden in need of stakes. You should be able to find these bamboo sticks at a local garden center for around $1 a stake, but they can also be ordered online.

Depending on what you have in your garage, this DIY trellis could cost you next to nothing. Remember to make sure that the bottom of the wooden tools are carved into stakes so they will stay in the ground.

This blogger took to Pinterest to come up with this unique DIY trellis. Once she understood the basic trellis shape, she searched her house for other everyday items that might be easily converted. By the end of her project, she had crafted a very unusual and beautiful solution for her climbing morning glories.

You can purchase a similar garden trellis for around $40 at a garden store, but why would you when you can make this one for around $10? This trellis has been designed to work with climbing sweet peas, but just about any climbing plant would do well with this design.

If you have an open porch, this garden trellis DIY project can double as a privacy screen. Simply place the finished piece in a planter along the porch ledge. Then, plant climbing vines in the planter, which will add more privacy as they grow.

This garden obelisk looks great but is also really easy to make. Unlike many of the other garden trellis plans in this design, this one requires no angle cuts. Keep in mind, it doesn't matter if the edges are perfectly aligned since this piece is meant to be covered with climbing greenery.

This vertical trellis works best when it's leaning on something like a fence because the design might not anchor well enough in the ground to stand on its own. The softer the dirt, the more likely this could be placed in the middle of a garden bed, but you may want to add stakes to the bottom just to be sure it's secure.

Twine Crib rails and headboards work well to train plants to grow vertically. Instead of just leaning these items on the side of a fence, this tutorial will show you how to add stakes to the bottom so you can place them just about anywhere.